Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the purpose of creation and wisdom visible in the evidence of natural structure. The man who refuses to marry has severed a chain of being, a previously unbroken chain linking his own existence to that of Adam.
Al-GhazaliKnowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
Al-GhazaliHe who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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